Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire

Michael Sappol is a historian in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC and author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America.Stephen P. Rice is Professor of American Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey and author of Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America.

• Introduction: Empires in Bodies; Bodies in Empires Michael Sappol (National Library of Medicine, USA)1 Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas Malthus Thomas Laqueur (University of California, USA) and Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College, USA)2 Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease Michael Worboys (University of Manchester, UK)3 Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science Richard C. Sha (American University, USA)4 Medical Science, Technology, and the BodyChandak Sengoopta (University of London, UK)5 Popular Beliefs and the Body: "A Nation of Good Animals" Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida, USA)6 The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire Michael Hau (Monash University, Australia)7 Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tattooing Practices Clare Anderson (University of Warwick, UK)8 Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body Nadja Durbach (University of Utah, USA)9 Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Stephen P. Rice (Ramapo College, USA)10 From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University, USA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index